Yeah, and we still dont have an even spread of 15 inch guns for all nations, so a few 16 inch guns at 7.3 with the same balancing fix they applied to the 15 inch guns I dont think would be all that big of a deal. They also have their own inherrent weaknesses, like low speed. But it is interesting to think about what they could add next to naval. I hope we dont get too many more inter-war/WW1 vessels. King George V BB could be really interesting instead of Queen Elizabeth BB
My answer will remain consistent:
All AAM pylons according to the manual, are to be filled.
Manual, & in rare cases photographic evidence, are what’s required as evidence for what AAM pylons are and what to put there.
XF-2 with armament capability has 8 AAM pylons, of what capability IDK.
And yes I’m aware of Mirage 2000 5F that lacks MICA RFs on its belly pylons. I’d say it should’ve waited until ARHs, but the fact it didn’t clearly saw benefit with it getting its HMD & 4x Magic 2s correct.
IDK, maybe 8x IRAAMs are possible on F-2, and if they are then I’m fully behind it being added at any time.
There’s the matter of AESA; I’m still opposed to such an important aircraft being introduced with a broken radar like this is 2019 again.
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F-15s, Gripen, F-4F ICE, 2A7+, T-90M, maybe SEP2, etc.
A lot of potential for closing the year.
Are you okay with EJ Kai being introduced with just 9Ps and ahistorical 7-E-2s?
Google gets me this:
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Which means 4 IR missiles only. If you really wanted to, you could add dumb bombs like the Mk.82 to the inner 4 pylons as optional (just like all armaments are optional with custom loadouts right now).
That’s inevitable isn’t it? It’s an iterative process and there’s no way Gaijin will get it right the first time. Maybe they introduce it as accurate as possible and realize it doesn’t fit gameplay and has to nerf it. Or perhaps Gaijin introduces it nerfed and realizes it would be fine if it was accurate to real life. What’s better, buffing something later or nerfing it?
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Outdated (and not even from an actual source). Generally A2A loadouts contain 4x IR + 4x SARH / ARH, neither more or less of all three missile types. SARH / ARH on Station 2 / 10 were scrapped due to wing cracking, capability was not carried over to production F-2 as off now.
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Is there an updated version somewhere for reference? I’m not well versed in these, though I could have sworn I saw one of these in the old forums during discussion in some magazine pictures.
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Only this - The one you posted is from an hobby model building set.
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Gaijin will likely make AESA more powerful than it actually is at first, it’s almost a guarantee.
No other game developer has attempted to simulate AESA yet, and much like when radars were first introduced being too powerful, I expect Gaijin’s implementation to be too powerful, but closer to where it should be than when radars were first implemented.
Gaijin doesn’t nerf radars, they make them as accurate as possible then change BRs if it’s less or more.
God knows I want this aircraft alongside every other amazing light fighter more than most.
And god knows I’ll be the first to complain if F-16C Block 60 comes to War Thunder before F-2.
At most at the same time, otherwise after.
I just expect a PD radar that doesn’t need to mechanically scan left/right/up/down for the first implementation. They can refine it afterwards of course, but this seems logical.
Asterisk with that because this update just nerfed some radar and RWR capabilities by making them more accurate.
Likewise I would love to see the F-15J soon as well. My only point is the only thing stopping the XF-2/F-2 from being added is other things taking priority in the development pipeline, not that it can’t be added pretty much anytime now.
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Argument can also be made that the new RWR also “nerfed” all radars. and future additions like CM overhauls and ECM will also “nerf” all radars. I also think they need to take a pass at things like ground clutter. Needs a good deal of polish.
one thing i’ve noticed about AAM pylons, the XF-2 is that it can be equipped with 2 missiles in 1 pylon for what i saw they were AAM-3’s and it could carry an insane ammount of missiles
At least I think it is impossible to become stronger, because Su-35 is still using pesa, gaijin may weaken aesa for balance reasons
Gaijin does not weaken radars.
F-35 uses AESA. The only country to use PESA in fighters is Soviets & Russia.
All others used phased-array PDs with few today using AESA.
At least we know that the Russian Su-57 and MiG-35 are using AESA. There are far more AESAs than PESAs in 4++ aircraft in the US and CN.
Su-57 is, Mig-35 isn’t. A future Mig-35 variant will be using AESA, but it’s not in production yet.
The current service Mig-35 is like an F-16C Block 52.
PESA radars sucks tbh they are very easy to counter and are very limited to only lock 1 target at a time
But here is a Russian game and they will make the PESA stronger than reality
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Aren’t current radars limited in range compared to their real life counterparts?
And of course as we get to modern era with classified equipment, there won’t be much for Gaijin to go off on and as such they’ll most likely introduce nerfed equipment because real life isn’t fair and gameplay > accuracy.
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the only way in they can buff it its by giving them extra range and maybe a wider cone but its already quite wide the only advantage the PESA has over AESA its wider locking, meanwhile AESA uses mechanical steer to compensate for that but its faster at scanning has more precision over PESA, can lock on numerous targets, and its harder to counter due to to capabilities of multiple frequency generation over wide range. In general i would put AESA in being more versatile than PESA tbh, and this radar seems the most effective so far
No. Radars have their correct range currently.
Against bombers? Dunno
BRs are for balancing radars, weapons, airframes, etc.
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